In soviet Russia the usage of the arithmetic mean was very looked down upon. People were supposed to use the median.
That, um, sounds like an urban legend to me. Links?
That, um, sounds like an urban legend to me. Links?
Unfortunately I don't have a link to a source available. It might be an urban legend from an untrustworthy source. A bunch of my knowledge of statistics comes from formal education without online sources but that doesn't even mean that it's necessarily trustworthy as I wouldn't be surprised if my statistics professor would have a retold a urban myth about a case like this.
Given how Russians handled the issue of Mendelian genetics I wouldn't be too surprised if it's true ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr...
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